The Sun. — London, England, 1826-05-11 00:00:00

THE. LONDON, JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS, MAY 11, 1826. [THE TIMES.) Thegeneral interest on the subject of the Corn terra does not diminish and it 'is still uncertain.whe ther MiniSters, with all their truckling, with all the sub sequent modifications of their original motion, for en-. suring the poor people of this land against Starvation,. till the new corn of_the next harvest can be brought to market, will be able to carry that measure, in any shape, into effect. This does seem hard, both upon the -la bouring classes and upon Ministers: we know not which is most to be pitied, except that the minds, only of one party are to 'be oppressed ; the bodies also of the other are to be left exposed to the chance of perish ing. It is worth the while, likewise, to observe, how very far the measure as it now stands, is from securing lts from starvation. For the Bill in agitation is not to:admit foreign .grain absolutely, but only to allow Ministers to admit it in a case of overwhehning neceti shy,—an allowance which they would be fearfully . cautious - of using hastily. - Neither is it to admit foreign grain without limitation ; but, six hundred thousand - quarters being the consumption of tine week in this country, they are in no case to admit more than five hundred thousand quarters; so that if there should not' be sufficient' grain in hand by a fortnight's con sumption, we should be left without bread—the poor people, to whom bread is the only support, would be left without it for above a week ; and that, even sup- posing the measure for which the struggle is made were carried. Are not these hard dealings for us ? it is yet more affecting, when;we know, that whereas it is not permitted to import corn for our support, Measures are actually in train for exporting our fellow creatures. There is at this time sitting 'a Committee, called, we believe, the Committee of Emigration, the object of whose labours is to transport, somewhither beyond sea,, the youthful progeny of British parents cenvicted of, no crime . What do the native powers of Africa Worse than this, by their unhappy subjects ? In.both cases,.also, Europetin mariners are ',the car riers. But our living exports are not, like the negroes, sent out to slavery. Perhaps not. But whom have they to thank for this exemption from this last aggra vation of human misery, supposing them t o enjoy it ? Not their country, but the benevolent Providence,,that has' not put the badge of blackness on their skins.— How different was the lot of the labouring poor of England in the by-gone time ? On e single fact .will Show us how the, labouring peasant has been robbed, 'and by whom.' By the "31st of _Elizabeth, c. 7, it , ivas prohibited to. erect cottages, " unless, at 'least, four acres of land •were laid to the s a m e ." It was the prudence of that great Queen, of immortally glorious memory, so as to secure the comforts of the agricultural poor,• for she knew in what the strength of her empire ethisisted. And cottages thus endowed existed, of course, in her reign, and were multiplied for a long period afterwards. Nor was it till the reign of the last King, till 15th George 111., c. 32, that this lair was formally repealed, on the sugg estion 4".)l'biie"Gilbert,;,.then a,Member of the l ower House. .Act is so short, that we shall here insert it verbatim • • 'CAP.: XNI i /: —An Act to.repeal an Act passed in the 31mt yew. ofthe reign:of , her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, entitled An Act . against the erecting.and maintaining,of Cottages:' Whereas au Act was passed in the SI st year of the reign of her Majesty Queen• Elizabeth, entitled An Act against the erecting and maintaining of Cottages ;' and whereas the said Act has laid the industrious poor under great difficulties to procure habitations, tends very much to lessen population, and in divers other .respects has been (mind inconvenient to the labouring part of the nation in general ; may it therefore idolise your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most Ex cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said Act shall be, and the same is hereby repealed." . , Oh, yes ; no doubt cottages with four acres of land each were found inconvenient to the nation : popula tion has thriven since, and has also greatly' increased in wretchedness. But by Whom, we ask, have the cot tages, • with their four acres of land each, that did actually (mist, been destroyed or appropriated ? To whose :estates have the four item; been Orn.4,ytted e t state3 of those, we answer, who now send the labouring poor to beg for half their scanty week's .pit lance ,to overseers,. and Vestries, and are :secretly making preparation to transport them and Their oft spring to some unknown region, because their pre sence is burdensome in England. . , , . Liwortmm; itiatAion.] 11, i.a comilitiWtanit in Lancashire alone there are ,20,000 powat‘looms. Now • if, in full work, .tlnyT !Owns, coidd , rproduee only four pieces of cloth each a-week,' would be a production in Lancashire poWer-loons, of. 00,000 pieces of cloth'.a.weet.', Which would be„equal to : 4 1 1130,000 pieces in the course of a-year. Twenty veers ago such * , thing '4'l . '3 a power-loom Was not knowi but they are ncnir"livit- only &Mullen hi this country', hut tre alsl,ceininon in the : United Statem, and ale al o we believe, finding; their way upon th e , con ti nent . • What the result may be in point of production, time inil) will discover. Would that bread and elieese,and pool try, and eggs, couldhe produced on . the same prin ciple, and'then we should - not Ii iso foWls iu Loudon. at twelve shilling's a, couple., What are the agrieultu, rists about that they cannot let US in London have a decent pair of fowls under twelve shillings'? Cannot Sir Thomas Lethbridge prevail on the farmers' wives, &Lighters, sons, men-::el yank ,and maid -servants, tec.' to leave their piano-fortes and other 'Play, and turn to'breed:and feed fowls, so as to afford them at a less price ? Brave times for the agricul turists rtwelve shilliws a couple for fuss is, while a .weaver ,earns only six shillings the course of a week. Tt is some timesinee, Voltaire observed that 44 Eng liShmen, with all their boasting about freedom, would swallow any slavery that came in the shape of an Act of Parliament." We should think, since 'Voltaire's time, the passion for absurd l eg i s l at i on i n thi s country ' bas'rather increased than diminished. It has, for the lot - ; few years, got to a most extravagant height— nothing' is too petty dr local. to furnish materials for a Penal Statute. I.,very little interest in the country ti:saitaDracon or its Solon, who, with the aid of one Air ,two busy, pragmatical Solicitors,- puts more strange notion.; into the shape, of a Bill, than any that Gulli ver detected among 44 the noodle philosophers" Of La i~uta.The plague of l'oe . usts di‘l not 'afflict Egypt so grievously .U.S.the. pl;►guc; .. of legislation afflicts England. • is almost impossible for a: plain, straight.f orwar d En b iolishman, who puts his main reliance jn good inten_ lions and. common sense, to knots where o r how to walk from one end of the island itO.,the other, without caught in„ wi ne „of:the, traps or springs of innu- Merable laws. It was only last Friday that 86 n ew Billq received t h e nor! Assent . ; scr.that, at all events, there need be no apprehension of any dearth of legal provisioni in this country. Were, indeed, our Parlia ment to rest from its labours for the next seven years, after the multiplied specimens of its ingenuity in law making luring the last seven, we could well bear the legislative famine for that period, and probably find that 'there would be as much honesty and wisdom in the world at the end of that time, as if every Session had produced its two or three hundred new enactments. There is one thing, however, that may attach us to this system of Bill mongering—and it is that the Acts, great and small, are exclusively of our " own manufacture ;" they are the work of " native artists," who have not, like the agriculturists, any thing to fear from foreign competi tion. It matters not whether our Parliament men are what are called Ministerialists or Patriots—they are all equally zealous, to make our Statute-books, if not the wisest, at least the biggest in the world. They will in course of time be, in point of magnitude, the greatest productions of the human mind ! and well may , our Legislators pride themselves upon that, as our horticulturists (anciently called gardeners) make it their study to obtain glory by cultivating the largest pompions and gooseberries on the face of the , earth.— We have a Turnpike - Bill that contains 120 pages. What a triumph of modern invention over ancient sim plicity, when we recollect that all the articles of the treaty of peace between the States of Rome and Car thage, after the first Punic War, were contained in six lines ! Exult, Mr. I f ittleton of Pottery fame, in that prolific genius for Statute-making, which enabled you to put so many folios together on the marking of plates and dishes !--What a pity that " cold water" should have been thrown on the great design that might have disciplined the apparatus of the tea-table, and limited ladies to sip their hohea in cups regulated by Act of Parliament ! - Disappointed, however, as this gentleman is, he can' mix his kindred Sorrows with those of Mr. Martin, whose code has " gone to the dogs" in a different way from what he intended. In the mean time, undaunted by the unhappy termi nation of the labours of those two great men, we per ceive that Alderman Wood is r endeavouring to " set the Thames on fir e " by theexcitement of a new law relative to watermen ! The blaze will no doubt re flect lustre on his election. This is equally disin terested with Mr. IVloore and his riband-legislation, and other approved methods of showing to," consti tuents," how great that zeal must be which risks in their cause all claims to common-sense.—Bid. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We anticipated from the first that the. people of Scotland would deter. Ministers from interfering' with their system of banking. The Scotch banks are enor mously rich, and wealth is always successful in this country. It has been stated in evidence before a Par liamentary Corrimittee, that three of these banks—the Bank of Scotland, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the British Linen Company—hold twenty mil; lions of Government Stock. Bodies so rich, and at the same time so popular throughout the country in which their operations are car , ; , ried on, are not to be easily beaten. .But why, as we have more than once asked, should the misconduct of the English Bankers form a ground for interfering with the Banksof a country which have been guilty of no misconduct, and which carry on their operations on quite a different principle ? Mini sters were called on tointerferdwith.the English Banks by the loud outcries against them from one end of the country to the other. They did not tamper with the currency, as the 'phrase' is,, till the extravagant issues of Some Country Banks had brought the paper circula tion into general discredit, and the demands on the Bank of England were so heavy that, ,as we learn from Mr. living's speech the other night, and Mr. Can ning's reply to him, Ministers were called on to sanc tion the restriction Or. Cash Payments. 'Whether it was, under all the circumstances, a wise measure to add to the discredit of the issues of the Country Banks by the refusal to issue more stamps to them, is a question which We are not now discussing. It is clear, however, that they vere called on to interfere with-the currency, by the most powerful considerations. But the credit of the Septa' Bankers was- never shaken forfora moment. The Merchants and manufacturers of &Oland might bc' suffering, like their English neigh bours, from overtrading ;. but the..credit of the Banks has always remained the same in all vicissitudes. There was najuSt ground ; then, for ineddlingwith them while the people' were perfect 'satisfied with them. We regard the announcement of Miniaters, of a determination of Ministers to put the circulation throughout the island on the same footing; as extorted: from them bythe English Bankers. All' such resolutions, however, in a Coun try like this, must yield to circumstances. The Scotch proved, that an interference with their Banks would he injurious to the, interests of the country. If the English Bankers could have proved as much, Minis ters mould also have been forced to give way with re *it to thein. The Scotch have some reason fOr not, supposing as'similation to England. would always be a t)enctit. . Since 1790, their foreign trade has creased in a ratio of between 2 and 3 to I,' corn pared with. 'that of England ; and their agricul ture Iris experienced a still more rapid improve inert thin their manufactures. Indeed, their agri-. coltute is the. most beautiful which has been seen in. the North of Europe. England has great advantages otter &otland in situation, in climate, and many other' respectS. If, therefore, Scotland be advancing more rapidly in the career of improvement than England, Ave have in .this circumstance almost a proof that her institutions are, upon the whole, more favourable to national' prosperity than those of England. Her laws with respect to property, and debtor and creditor, are very 'superior to those of England ; and her local ad- Ministration of justice secures to the people the benefit of cheap justice at their door. There is, no doubt, still.rOam for great impro vement i n Scotland ; but every unprejudiced English Man, 'acquainted,. With the two sections of the island, will own that England might borrow, at least, as much from. Scotland. as Scotland need to borrow from 'England. SECURITY OF STEAM ENGINES,----Tue R oyal Academy of Paris report, as the means of preventing accidents from the explosion of steam engine boilers, that the boiler should be proved by the hydraulic press to sustain a pressure five times greater than the working of the steam engine requires; that safety valve should be attached to the boiler, and loaded so as to open at a pressure just above that by which the boilers have been tried ; that the boiler should be surrounded by a %rid! 89i inches thick, standing 31 , 4 inches from the boiler, and that a metallic plug should be inserted in the upper part of the boiler, formod of an alloy that will melt at a degree a little.above the temperaturent which . the engine werke. : . • • • .gBC,4i-Pg FRQM . Fritg.- 7 -A cprrespontiont at Pen. zanee.suggesta the following method :—Take a strong rope which reaches from the bed-room into the street—well knot it, about two feet ass Under--fatten one end to the lied-post, and the remain der put tinder the bed, so that it may be found in a moment if. required.. With this simple, though apparently useful apparatus, a P el l" 'night pane from the. window of his bed-room into the street with thelr,,tamt .case, anda : reseJyaccess bee, olitained to the bighelt.llatt OA...beddi ng , when the usual cuinieunicatinns a " '4'4 off b y , the ~ 4 14n 1 w h ,and lives:and property save 4 by means of it, when every- otlicr expedi e nt may prove LAW INTELLIGENCE. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, MAT 9. TliE CITY .OF LONDON V. BEDSOR. This was a case of compensation. The defendant sought from the Corporation of London the sum of 2,5001. as compensation for the loss of his business, by the removal of his house, in 'Stonecutter-street, Fleet-market, to make way for the new market. The sum of 3501. had been agreed upon between the parties for the lease of the premises, but the demand of Mr. Bedsor for the injury he sustained, by the loss of his trade, was so enormous in the opinion of those to whom it was submitted, that so offer was made by the city but that of an appeal to a Jury. The Common Serjeant opened the case. The defendant be gan business as a dealer in sheep's heads, three or four years ago,in Stonecutter-itreet, where he established a house for the sale of the article just mentioned. He afterwards took the next house, and commenced as a sausage and black-pudding manufacturer, and vender of pork, keeping on his business of sheep's head dresser and seller at the same time; and he also took in the same street another house, which he let out at a slight profit in furnished lodgings. The profits of trade were derived from the lowest of the community, who inhabited George-yard and the places ad jacent. The trade itself was exceedingly humble—nevertheless, the defendant made a demand at the rate of 9001. a year, which he set down as the profits he was in the habit of makin g . The defendant, who employed three Counsel upon the occasion (Mr. Reader, Mr. Law, and Mr. Muirhouse), produced witnesses to prove that hid business was very extensive. One of the witnesses stated, that the defendant had been in the habit of purchasing pigs in great " multitudes," and that he had paid as much as 501. on a Saturday night for " cattle" of that kind; that he sold a great deal of pork and sausages, and black-puddings, and that his profits were very considerable. The sheep's head shopman and shopper was also examined. He stated that he had been in the defendant's employment ever since he began in the ,sheep's head line. ,He bad chopped when first he went to work but few " Jemmies," but he arterwards chopped ever so many. He sometimes chopped 700 a-week. He also cut up the plucks— Them was profitable to Master as well as the sheep's heads. Mr. lland asked the ivitness how long the pork business had been eetablished?—Witnesv. I blows nothing at all about that. Mr. Holland. Why, it was carried on next door; you must know Something about it.—Witness, I wa'nt in the sausage line, I was only amongst the sheep's heath, and I knows nothing about any thing else—(Leud. laughter.) '• One of the Jury. There was a 'communication between the two houses. It is impossible that you could be in total ig norance of the purk business.---Witness. I knows nothing at all about it. I never minds nothing.:-..barring the sheep's heads and plucks.-.-(Laughter.) ' • Mr. Rolland. What ! -DO you - know nothing of the machine? Witness. ; I never uses no machine. I chops the heath. Mr. Rolland. Nothing of the machine! What! .Do you know nothing of the machine? Why, if you put in a pig at One end it is sure to come out in sausages at the other.—(Laughter.)--Wit ness. I knows nothing at all about it, I tell you. The witness however, upon being asked by the Counsel for the defendant the same questions, answered, without hesit a ti on , th a t hi s mas t er h a d taken the pork house about two years ago. One of the defendant's witnesses, upon being asked about the profits of the sheep's head business, said, greatly to the diacomfi , ture of his Counsel, that he (witness) had been in the trade extensively, but, that he had quitted the "Jemmy" business be cause it was unprofitable. The Conunon Sergeant commented upon the evidence. He represented that the defendant, upon . whom it was far from his in tention to cast any imputation in consequence of the low nature of his employment, had certainly greatly exaggerated his profits. The sheep's bead trade—(Great laughter.)---was not of late so flourishing as could have been wished by the gentlemen who dealt _in that article, and he apprehended that the pork sausages did not yield so great a profit as would enable the defendant to pocket 9001. a year: His business was amongst the lowest orders, and his. profits must be proportionably low, particularly as sheep's heads were, in warm weather, very liable to decay ; and as for the plucks, they would perish in little or no time. The Learned Gentleman, after having given further testimony of his knowledge of this part of the trade, said, in alluding to Mr.Bolland's description of the sausage-machine, that the wit ness, who had professed his ignorance of its virtues, would, if he were put into it at one end, certainly come out sheep's heads at the other.—(Loud laughter, in which the 'Recorder joined.) The Jury, after a short deliberation, agaessed the compensation for the loss of the pig and sheep's head trade at 7001. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. GARRATT AND OTHERS, THE EXECUTORS OF RAINIER, F. THE ROCK UPI utstaukticE COMPANY,' This was an action brought to recover the Burn of three thou sand pounds on a policy of insurance effected on the life of Mr. Rainier. Mr. JERVIS, the Counsel for the plaintiff, stated, that there was a clause in the policy which states, that if the insured meets with his death by suicide or duelling, his executors shall not receive the amount of. the policy. This proviso is introduced in order to protect companiorfrom the frauds which persons in' desperate cir cumstances might. be induced to commit, for the sake of their fa mulles, by self-destruction. In ,the year 1809 Mr. Rainier had married a young lady, and in the year 1810, ,in order to provitle for a family which he expected would be large, l ie effected an in-, towatice Upon the Company for 5,000). Finding, however, ,froM a change in his circumstances, that, he was unable to ninke the regular payments upon so large nu amount, he, with the consent of the Company, reduced the policy, to p,9901. and upon it he had paid '1,5931. to the office. It was stated, in favour of the de fendants, that Mr. Rainier had been afflicted with one of th e mos t awful 'Of human nialadieii,-„insanity had been at one time a partner in a firm, which in 1810 stopped payment, and in volved him in considerable difficulties.. He lost his mother, who was a most tender and affectionate parent, and after that time (1817), he began to show symptoms of mental de rangement. Five years after the death of his mother he had the misfortune to lose his Wife, and was again* prived of reason, but never showed "any disposition to injure either himself or others. He resided et Highbiwy, and on the 15th of March, between five and six o'clock, he quitted his house unknown to his faMily, and ealled at.some places where he doubtless exhibited strong symptoms of agitation and exciteinent. At Mr.lVilliams's house at Homerton; which was the first place he visited, he asked fora glass of water. The lady prevailed upon him to take Wine, after which he asked her for a bed ; this ac commodation he could not get, upon Which he went to a public- Inane, where ho was also disappointed in his application for a bed. In gving from one place to another be' had toimis the New River, and if he contemplated suicide, it was natural to suppose he would hiVe drowned himself there. He then pissed on to the ' lo os e of Mr. Cavanagh, where he took refreshment, and - a ft er aniither call in the same neighbourhood, he ran into the city, and asked a friend for some money, but disappeared s u ddenly without taking it with him. He was afterwards seen by the patrol run ping rapidly along the road to Finiffiley, and he Came so roughly in contact with a bricklayer; • that both tumbled dOwn on their backs. Upon be:.; questioned as to the cause of his violent jour ney, he said he had been robbed and murdered ! Upon searching his packets, hoWever, lie said that he bad loSt nothing, that he had un fortunately dined out, ;and got in liquor. He was anxious td get upon the patrols' boxeS, but could nut pievail upon the per son who accompanied him to allow him; He then took the road to Finchley, and upon reaching a pond on the premises of a farmer, was drowned. It was probable,.froin 'the state in which his shoes and stockings were found, that he bad walked into the pond with his clothes on; that he then retuned, Undressed him self, laid hiS clothes in a convenient place, and in such a manner RN proved that he intended to dress himself after he had cooled the fever under which be had evidently labdured. • The defendants a: leged that he had committed suicide', and 'refused, on that ground, to pay the demand. If he had intended to drown himself he would have thrown himself in clothes and all ; but it was to be inferred front all the circumstances, that he did not . go into the water for the purpose of destfoying life, bUt merely to allay the excessive fever with which he was afflicted, and that he had died froth apo plexy or accident. He had acted in a Manner' that was not re eoncileable with the idea of destroying himself in passing by that' part of the pond where he 'would have been immediately drowned if he had thrown "himself in, and selecting that part which was not so deep. Th e weat h er was most inclement. There waii a black frost %m on t h e groun d, an d it was natural to suppo se th at apoplexy was p ro d uce d b y immersion, as the dec ease d h a d a great tendently to that disorder. Supposing he was insane, what was there in the circumstances to show that' lie had . Committed ,self murder, .Th e J ury wou ld d o ubtless be of opi n i on , that.in going to the imed to allay the fever .with which he was tortured; he died an'"ei two de ldeth. After witnesses had corroborated the statentent Of the Learned Cm1 " 81 M to the conduct of the deceased, Mr. , Brewster, the farmer in whosepond the body was' &Lind, stated, that u p on go i ng: nut early 4.sn the morning;of the 16th of March, he saw the body in the:shallow-Tart of the pond. The decried most paw the sleep part to arrive at that which was shal low. If a person who had the power of rising, had fallen in the part where the body lay, be could easily have got out, as the bottom was firm. - Mr. Stracey, a surgeon, who had examined the body, was de cidedly of opinion that the deceased died of apoplexy. Mr. Jzavls asked, whether immersion of the extremities in cold water might not create apoplexy with a person in a state of fever. Witness—" No doubt of it." Mr. Bl!,OUGHABI asked the witness, whether a man who was hanged might not die of apoplexy as well as a person who was drowned. Witness said, that when a person died from suffocation, there was generally a rupture of the blood-vessels of the head. Witnesses were called to prove, that the occasional insanity of the deceased was not of such a nature as to lead him to -commit suicide. He was always perfectly harmless both towards himself and others ; and his general character was such, that he would be the last man suspected of such-a tendency. Dr. Armstrong gave evidence to this effect ; and another medical man was of opinion, that the deceased might have died by an apoplectic fit, produced by immersion in cold water whilst in a state of fever. The CIIIEF JUSTICE said, it was one of those cases in which there was no knowing how to decide. It reminded him of a case of property in which it was to go one way, if the daughter sur vived her mother, and another 'may, if the mother survived her. It happened that they both perished in one ship, which was sunk; and a Jur,y had to determine which died first. The Jury de cided on the presumption, that the greater strength of the mother would enable her to struggle - the longest against death. The Jury, after a quarter of an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, which entitles them to the Three Thou sand Pounds. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday Captain Phillip., of the ship London, which trades to Batavia, was brought before the Loan AlAvoit *upon a warrant, charging him With having com mitted various assaults upon a mulatto named Wm. Tyson. The complainant stated, that he went out with the defend ant as steward of the ship. When they arrived at Batavia, the cook and four hands were put on shore. The Captain or dered the witness to cook, but he objected, as it was not in his articles of agreement that he should' perform work - of that nature. The Captain, upon this, swore lie would get down his throat, and gallop his inside out.' He then beat the complain ant three or Tour times. The complainant thezi related a series, of ill usage, which, if it had been substantiated, would have proved the Captain to have been a brutal a iriaa as any in the navy. The Loan NAvon told the complainant that he might, if he thought proper, indict the Captain at the Admiralty Sessions. GUILDHALL—Mr. Chas. Lund, once a respectable mer chant in Austin Friars, was brought before the sitting Alderman, yesterday, charged with having intruded hinisdf into the dwelling house of - Mr. Richard Davis, in Noble-street, Cheapside, and there making sueh a disturbance as drew a crliwd of people round the door. This:3lr. Charles Lund is one of those social souls who hold. • that "true joy is drinking ;" and nunc tempue est bibendum has been his constant motto "from night till morn, from morn till dewy eve,"—always nunc tempuo est bibcndum. When he was a merchant he sang, " Flow thou regal purple stream," until he became a jobbing accountant ; and when he was a jobbing ac countant, he sang " and swore there was nothing like grog," un til he .became little better than a pauper; and now he is little better than a pauper, blue ruin and heavy wet is th e theme of his sung; and with them he has gone on moistening his clay until it quakes like a quagmire, and he is become a sort of moving bog. During the last two or three years he has been placed at the bar of this office some forty or fifty times for beating his wife, be-, cause she has presumed to remonstrate against his excessive, biba eiousness ; but being blest with the " gift of the gab," he has always contrived to wheedle her into " trying him once more.", On the present occasion he went into the warehouse of Mr. Davis, in Noble-street, tottering and hiccuping, Under the influente of gin, at ten o'clock in the morning, and, seating himself upon a stool, he said to Mr. Davis, " Don't you know me ?—Eh! don't you know me ?" " No," replied Mr. Davis, "I do not;"—for, though he did know something of his former respectability, and had several times relieved his necessities when he happened to be sober, he did not cause to know him when drunk. " Well," re joined Mr. Lund, ".1 um a gentleman of classical education— (hiccup)—and I want something or other—can't you give me something ?" Mr. Davis replied that he could not; but Mr. Lund was determined he would have smoothing ; and became'so troublesome that, after enduring his troublesomeness for more than a quarter of an hour, Mr. Davis took him by the arm and led him into the street ; where he became so'abusive that a crowd'of people gathered round the door, and ut length Mr. Davis gave him in charge to a constable, who broUght him before the Alderman. " Well, Mr. Lund," said Mr. Alderman LUCAS, a you make your appearance here pretty regularly;—what have you to say now ?" Why, I have little or nothing to say, Sir," replied Mr. Lund—who by this time had become tolerably sober, I have nothing to say but that I throw myself entirely under your mer , . ciful consideration. There has been nothing much. the matter ; and I appeal to Mr. Davis whether, when I had to call upon him for the settlement of an account, I did not show him all the kindness and accommodation which it was possible for one Man to show to another ?" • " Nonsense, wan ,replied Mr. Davis, ,very angrily ; " you came once With an account, as a xpiieetor for some person, and I paid it the'moment you demanded it." , • - . , " Well, but, my dear Sirit' rejoined Mr. Lund ; 6, there are different modes of denianding an account—and I appeal to you, whether my mode was not kindness itself?" • Mr. Davis made no' reply, and Mr. Lund proceeded to propi, Hato the.Aldettnan,._,s YOur Worship' is ,itivarti," said he, " of my classical attainments, and you know how incompatible are classical attainments with a state of extreme poverty. I beseech you let that plead my excuse—let me hope teat you will extend to me the seine merciful, and' gentlemanly consideration, for which every bodY'speaks of you so highly." " This is all very fine, Mr. Lund," said the Alderman; '"sett it will not do for me. It is my duty to preserve the peace, and I shall deal with you as P would with the most illit&ate person under the Mlle circumstances. The dassieal attainments of which you boast ought to teach you to behave. like a optimum, but you are a public nuisance; and you must find sureties for your better behaviour in future ;—I shall hold you in custody until you do." " 'then," said Mr. Lund, very pathetically, " I have nothing left for it but 'to throw myself into a solitary prison !" and so saying, he was locked up. Blurton, aged 27, was charged by Mr. Dawson, of Sloane-street, aged 60, with an assault. Mr. D. stated, that on Tuesday evening he was entering the Pit of Covent Garden Theatre, ivith a female then by hie wide, when she Cemplained to him that a man was behaving with great rude; ness to her, and immediately the same man gavelier a violent push; by which part of the admission money was foreed s from her hand. She stooped to pick it up, when the defendant put his arm across her neck, and pushed her aside, at the same time milling her a woman of the town. This irritated complainant, who, forget ting the disparity of age, seised him by theisiller, and a strug gle ensued,? which defendant gave him' a blow in the mouth, and he in consequence. gave him in charge of i'cOnstahle. , The female confirmed this testimony, with the 'exception that she did not hear the words. which followt4l thel'ittpression, ." This woman." Mr. D, however was positive they Were "of the town." Thu Lieutenant said he was conducting three :fenude relatives tit) the Pit, when their ears were.asaailed by language the most obacane and disgusting from this woman (this both Mr. D. and the female positively denied, , the latter declaring she never in her life used an expression that a delicate female need he ' ashamed of.) The Lieutenant, however, . persisted in the truth of his observation, and added, that in consequence, one of his relations begged him to prevent her from coming in contact with " that woman," when lie certainly put his arm across, and got his party past her.. Mr. P. then rushed upon him and he re treated, in order to prevent coming in contact with a man of his advanced age, but it was of no use, and at length he was com pelled to act offensively as well es defensively. • .Sir R. Birnie said, th ere a ppe a r e 4 to Imre been a great deal of irritation, as well as assault, on both sides, lie should therefore hold neither of them to bail, ,but leave them to their remedy at the Sessions. —Case dismissed. MARY-LE-BONNE. AIWA tr Sr4vE air. —.Andrew Done lan, a mas ter sweep, was , charged with "taking a : child, o f t h e name of William John White, as an apprentice, being under the age, of eight years, contrary to the statute. . Mrs. Brown, of Somers Town, stated that she Was the grand mother o f the boy, who Was only seven years orate. , The hoy's motherwas tnarried to a second husband, a private soldier; of the name of Bates. She had seven children by the first husband. jut e ,' regiment Was ordered to the East Indiesahout three months since. The Wife accompanied hint, and took four of the children with her, and left the remaining three after her; brie of whom; J o h n White, she hound to Andrew Donelan, a toaster sweep; who gave her N. as a consideration for 'the service of the boy D ' onelan came forward with, five of his apprentices, with Well-' washed faces, and who Were neatly dressed in blue cloth jackets and trowsers, aed white beaver hats.. White stiveared to be the youngest. He was called up by Mr. Rawlinson, who put sot questions to him respecting the treatment which he rect , iveil, a from his answers it appeared he was as well treated as any you sweep could expect. _ _ Raww - isol; observed, that by the Act of Parliama any master sweep who should take a child under eight year, age, as an apprentice, incurred a penalty of ten pounds) and I less than five pounds. Donelan handed an, agreement to the 11Iagistrate; purpordl be made between himself and the boy's mother, in. January be by which she agreed to bind the child for eight years, and echo ledging the receipt of 51. from Donelan. Mr. Rawunsott said it appeared . that the 51. was paid to tl mother as the purchase money for the child, and that she swot to place more value on the money than on the boy. It wa' species of slavery that was disgraceful, and was only equal to tl traffic in negroes. Mandan contended that the 51. was given to the mother es consideration for giving up her business (in his own line) to hin Mr. GIUMTH said that in most cases the fee came from tl parent of the child, and not from the master. The matter looks very suspicious on the-part of Donelan, and it appeared to be regular bargain and sale on the flee of the agreement. Mr. RawLtwsox said that Donelan appeared quite indignant: the charge on a former occasion, and indeed was most nog!' ficent in his language. Without taking the question of tl bargain and sale into consideration, be should convict Donelan the full penaly of 101. for taking the child as an apprentice, heir' under eight years of age, and should hand the boy over to bi grandmother, Mrs. Brown, to be taken care of. Donelan became clamorous, and said that Mrs. *rown ed to keep the boy at the same business for her own emollosat Mrs. Brown denied this, as she only wanted to have the boy ' ' cated, and put to some more r es pectable business. Mr. R.twuwsox said he would prevent Mrs. Brown (Wl' keeping the boy at the same business, and ordered her to !girl the-boy to that office before him, once in every three month commencing the first Monday in July. Ile had no doubt WI Donelan was more indulgent than the generality of toaster but the penalty should be enforced. MEETINGS OF :CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, MONDAY, MAY 16. At the Court of Commissiuriere. A. U. Meredith, Portsmouth, Southampton, at 12. • . and J. BrenchltY) sea. and jun., Milton, Grareient ice 4 _ _ at 12. W. Oliver, Hamilton-place, Battle Bridge, at 11. J. Reynolds, Bread-atreet-bill, London, at 1. P. Elen, Woburn, Bedford, at 12. W. Banlon, York, at 12. J. Hawke* Old Jewry, London, at 1. W. Halliwell, Banhill-row, Middlesex, at 12. , COUNTRY DIARY, MONDAY, MAY 15. R. Greenwood, Dewsbury, York, at the Sessions House, Ir.' field, at 10. • J. Hammerton, Wakefield, York, at the Sessions Howse, Wake field, at 10. 11. Resew, Liverpool, at Messrs. Ovred and Co.'s °filo, Liver' pool, at 1. le G.' Hoy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the George Inn, Newcastle , at 11. T. Parkinson, Preston, Lancaster, at Messrs. Winstanley nil CQ Office, at 10. , A. Marmioa and R. Carr, Preston, Lancaster, at Inn, Liverpool, at 11. 'fart Ina, T. and J. Jellyman, Downton, Wilts, -at the White Salisbury, at 12. I at I. J. Copeland, Shelton, Sta ff ord, at the George Inn, Liverl ) °' ' O , W. Willement, Colchester, Essex, at th e Swap Inn, MaP c ' at 4. 'fort , the Goldeo Lion J. Ingham, Bradford, York, at Bayne's Coffee-hour , at I I. J. Morgan, jun., and J. Aitchison, jun., 'Br tol, 'at the SW's' Inn, Bristol, at 2. J. Cox, aud B. Wills, Nottingham, at tho Lion !lota, Is'ottiat ham, at 11. e . , Cund, slinton, S a lop, at the Fox Inn, Shrewsbury, at 11. all sorts; distinguishing e ach sort, snlBo unported Into G . , 75 1800 to Janual . Britain in etteli year, from J an ue ry , f , GRAii4 . l.-An Account of the ivantity o f grain re ° ; 5,1828; from the pints of the Block Sed :---, Ivo' _.t' 1819..-Peas,'3 qrs: 4' bus. ; Rye, 1,594 q rs. I hue.; -- .-Indian Corn, 12,104 qrs. 2 bus.—Total, 13,701 qrs. 7 bus. , ~ bo ; • ls , efl.--Bar/ey 2,527 qrs. 1 bus. ; Dean* 8 cr l • ",. 0 , Oat ' , 14 t 5 i i ' p 514 qrs. S bee. Rye, 1,48 i 9 qrs. ps, ; Pe as, 125 282 qrs. 5 bus. 3 bus ' ; 'neat, 20,685 qrs. 8 bu'•-"Tota , qrs.—Total , 182 1.—Peaa, 57qrs. 5 bus.; Wheat, 11,455 qrs. 1 11,512 qrs. 5 bu.• wh ea t, 3,180 go'" - - . i 822 Total, 3,392 gm 6 bus. 1825.—Wheat, 1,751 qrs. 4 bus. . 1826..—Wheat, 079 qrs. 5 bus. . ' ' unshe d Note.—The imports froin'the Black Sea were not distgstoni. in the returns made to the Inspector-Generars-office, „opt houie, prior to the sth of January, 1817; the foregoing a' cannot, therefore, be carried back to an earlier. period. 212 qrs. 6 bus. ; , • ---nd tea - A hen was lately set upon thirteeen eggs , a alio , teemdu i beautiful chicks were batched two days before the ter s der, _,,, tion of the three weeks; hot the most singular part ing the the tiny e of ineabation„ the hen laid two additional, egg' whieh brought forth two Additional birds at the sa . ,Pe " ' Mill Advertiser. h ROBBERY! I‘IIDNIGIIT ROBBERY ! !-- T-° lt g h e die . We have had occasion of late to remark ufteuer than once oP°- lice robberies in Dumfries, and the apparent inefficiency o f our Pe ro in their endeavours to detect the offenders, we believed the l' lie of the landward, part of the country to be as good e s lb° bit neighbours,. until A IWO tittle ago, that we h ear d l AA res P et he fatly, in a small village not 100 miles distant, who was like l Y : A l. deprived of her all, by . the undiscoverable agency of ° me i' use night marauders, against whose depredations, bolts, bar* fil-- u •ere stauneheons gave no security. Her doors and window!,,. firmly secured, but something was Almelo be off in the m o r e on several occasions she kept' watch . h e rself during th e ~,( 1113, be nights of winter; and ninny a sleepless . hour to boot thu .. , to , pass in bed, in the hope of .d e t ec ti n g h er nocturnal " Ite ~ but in vain. Trinkets; gold pins, s o vere i gns , bank che elrb e nd th &c. disappeared by degrees, however carefully lock ed ,7041; t ° e bins poor lady was in despair hut she should be 0 P" 10 have recourse to the Poore box, and die a begge She OP .„,t r. o d e , to the Rank, but they could give her no money, till silo ri; ~. io the voucher; she stated her lamentablet case the autleetttlo the neighbourhood, for there are no BOilfes o in her to"' t ied they foe, alai! however willing to afford the mid of th e r ' j her power to a forlorn and unprotected female in the recove r) ; ° w ith property, could only under present circumstances co nde ' e o 'cio° her on her misfortunes. .She. could not even ron °t .,.ll '. ieg against any of her neighbours, otherwise she was assereo a : - 4 pri immediately provided with a. warrant .to search for 'r' goods. Thus matters went on, till last week, when ""V e - , , h i gh . some old lumber, which had remained untouched for Pe r ''',,, l' ae are , a century, she diaeovered not only the wh o l e of. her tor w r- , ot ,ot but a numerous family of large f011.:gro , .RATS I -.,,,,- 'r i only add that as the thieves consented - I li" • P ° ' -4.41° ' to leer resuming vo, of the stolen property, she declines prosecutingthent.-- fries Journal. ' ' - . . ' (.:0414 AIA HVE. MAY Adair's, 31s—Benumot, thLs 6d—it:Ring lywell, 32s 6d—Pontop d •or, /11$--Tanlield.P w :ip 0 4 " . ' —T°wn l e -Y• 3 "' I I Walls - End Boddie ntd 4 0.; 37,, 9:l Walls Ell" Er 6 l 34+—Walls Ent! Woorltiitlo,3fls R I', li e tton' , % l 4 ` ‘2?.' 33% Iftt.—shi i . t et, •• ,, Id. 11 at Kensington, the laly o f R. .On the 4th.irst., Esq. of a daugl:tr. MA kW E 1). ll On NVedresday, the 10tii ni.c , at flat ylebone Om% Arica G th c e .o ße rg i v n . a ' lit . c ' i l d n e . i. P t daughter t e i Fearse. E. of Markham, in the c '''•'' i , ~ ,,, ,c r"" .. ,1 t 7. minty di' -I , , i „ ,TA • for Carnarlonoiire. , , ,„. n vel• On %Vail:K.l;day, the 10th inst, St :Ft. George% I":ifeurt square, by the Itev, Bryant nargess, Alexander litivo, F'q• to 4 11 "'. st‘Plkm, widow of the late S.?it2l)/ 1 rtrti)cfe::::Bllrom:l;.;lciVileihriatr:,s,7ll%°::)ftrti't DIED. widow On the Ist inst., at Mixt/in 'Ors. Hannah Ilughest., r ep of the Irate Unchain, ' On' Tunday, tr, cs, ~outr, • vett 113. 1 11 t he On Tucklay, the ipst , I . Bp:, ill year of hi. age, Daniii Slade, On the th l th 111 %; in dr: ouch rrinCe, the lion. , !Nimble .Ihore s " youri g e4t son of Teigatooutli. .I,o^ the wife of .lioneti Montgomery, 1i,; , :1 :2 2/ ... 21r42 .... 0111 .• the 9:11 inst., in 3 , ,ich y ea r of her, Age: Printed and . Publi4lied by 11i. YOUNG, It -146° 16141 No- 11e. Straud.. , vt.filfoo'